Dream Days

· 1932

PAGE THE TWENTY-FIRST OF OCTOBER 3 DIES IRÆ 25 MUTABILE SEMPER 47 THE MAGIC RING 71 ITS WALLS WERE AS OF JASPER 97 A SAGA OF THE SEAS 123 THE RELUCTANT DRAGON 149 A DEPARTURE 207 IN the matter of general culture and attainments, we youngsters stood on pretty level ground. True, it was always happening that one of us would be singled out at any moment, freakishly, and without regard to his own preferences, to wrestle with the inflections of some idiotic language long rightly dead; while another, from some fancied artistic tendency which always failed to justify itself, might be told off without warning to hammer out scales and exercises, and to bedew the senseless keys with tears of wearines…

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